Radio DelEuZe: direction and disjunction

8.11.10

direction and disjunction

___________________Directions from Middlesex

Philosophy Event at Middlesex this Thursday:

Susan James on ‘Spinoza, Rembrandt and Superstition’

Susan James is the author of Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy(Oxford University Press, 1997), and is currently working on a book on Spinoza and politics. She lectures in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. She will be discussing Spinoza's political philosophy, with reference to the discussion of superstition in the Preface to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the theory of passions in the Ethics.

Place: Saloon (M004), Mansion Building, Middlesex University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ. Tube: Piccadilly line to Oakwood station, free bus to campus. Enquiries:c.kerslake@mdx.ac.uk

All welcome.

Susan James on Spinoza, Thursday 11 November, 6.30pm

christian kerslake | 8 November 2010 at 12:36 | Categories: statements | URL:http://wp.me/pU92s-oS

And DiSJunCTion from

Nina Power's Infinite Thought

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8 November, 2010

logics of worlds online

Not that I would fancy reading all 636 pages online, but someone has uploaded the whole thing here.

// Posted by InfiniteTh0ught @ 11:11 am

__________AnD What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

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What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

And : The question of speed is important and also very complex. It doesn't mean the first in the race: you can be late through speed. Speed is to be caught in a becoming_ which is not a development or an evolution. One must be like a taxi, queue(ligne d'attente), line of flight, traffic jam, bottleneck, green and red lights, slightly paranoid,brushes with the police. To be an abstract and broken line, a zigzag which glides 'between'. The grass and speed. What you misnamed style just now_ charm or style_ is speed.

And :One only discovers worlds through a long, broken flight.

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As for the method of deconstruction of texts I see clearly what it is, I admire it a lot, but it has nothing to do with my own method. I do not present myself as a commentator on texts.

For me, a text is merely a small cog in an extra-textual practice. It is not a question of commenting on the text by a method of deconstruction, or by a method of textual practice, or by other methods; it is a question of what use it has in an extra-textual practice that prolongs the text ..

Professor D Challanger speaking

in Clinical Critical terms as the hat was in the wind

How else?

How else can one write of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one to the other.
Only in this manner are we resolved to write. To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow -or rather, to make it impossible. Perhaps writing was a relation to silence altogether more threatening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.
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Difference and Repetition.